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Swift vs Xcode: What are the differences?
What is Swift? An innovative new programming language for Cocoa and Cocoa Touch. Writing code is interactive and fun, the syntax is concise yet expressive, and apps run lightning-fast. Swift is ready for your next iOS and OS X project — or for addition into your current app — because Swift code works side-by-side with Objective-C.
What is Xcode? The complete toolset for building great apps. The Xcode IDE is at the center of the Apple development experience. Tightly integrated with the Cocoa and Cocoa Touch frameworks, Xcode is an incredibly productive environment for building amazing apps for Mac, iPhone, and iPad.
Swift can be classified as a tool in the "Languages" category, while Xcode is grouped under "Integrated Development Environment".
"Ios" is the primary reason why developers consider Swift over the competitors, whereas "IOS Development" was stated as the key factor in picking Xcode.
Swift is an open source tool with 48.4K GitHub stars and 7.76K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Swift's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, Xcode has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1052 company stacks & 604 developers stacks; compared to Swift, which is listed in 994 company stacks and 541 developer stacks.
Pros of Swift
- Ios251
- Elegant176
- Not Objective-C124
- Backed by apple105
- Type inference91
- Generics60
- Playgrounds54
- Semicolon free49
- OSX39
- Tuples offer compound variables35
- Clean Syntax23
- Easy to learn23
- Open Source21
- Functional20
- Beautiful Code19
- Linux11
- Dynamic11
- Promotes safe, readable code10
- Protocol-oriented programming9
- No S-l-o-w JVM8
- Explicit optionals8
- Storyboard designer6
- Best UI concept5
- Type safety5
- Super addicting language, great people, open, elegant5
- Optionals5
- Powerful4
- Fail-safe4
- Highly Readable codes4
- Faster and looks better4
- Swift is faster than Objective-C4
- Feels like a better C++4
- Its friendly4
- Strong Type safety3
- Easy to learn and work3
- Much more fun3
- Protocol extensions3
- Native3
- Its fun and damn fast3
- Easy to Maintain3
- Esay2
- MacOS2
- Type Safe2
- All Cons C# and Java Swift Already has2
- Protocol oriented programming2
- Protocol as type2
- Actually don't have to own a mac1
- Can interface with C easily1
- Numbers with underbar1
- Optional chain1
- Runs Python 8 times faster1
- Free from Memory Leak1
- Swift is easier to understand for non-iOS developers.1
- Great for Multi-Threaded Programming1
- Objec1
Pros of Xcode
- IOS Development129
- Personal assistant on steroids32
- Easy setup29
- Excellent integration with Clang17
- Beautiful1
- Built-in everything1
- Con0
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Cons of Swift
- Must own a mac4
- Memory leaks are not uncommon2
- Its classes compile to roughly 300 lines of assembly1
- Complicated process for exporting modules1
- Very irritatingly picky about things that’s1
- Is a lot more effort than lua to make simple functions1
- Overly complex options makes it easy to create bad code0
Cons of Xcode
- Massively bloated and complicated for smaller projects4
- Horrible auto completiting and text editing2
- Very slow emulator1
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The performance of Swift is almost the same as that of C++, which is considered the fastest in algorithm calculation arithmetics. Apple had this idea in mind and worked to improve the speed of Swift. For example, Swift 2.0 has beaten C++ in several computation algorithms, such as Mandelbrot algorithm. Objective-C is slower because it contains C API legacy.
Swift is faster than Objective-C, because it removed the limitations of C language and has been improved with the help of advanced technologies that were unavailable when C was developed. As mentioned by Apple, Swift was originally designed to operate faster.
Despite the fact that languages are different, they both integrate, and work with Cocoa and Cocoa Touch APIs, for all Apple platforms. Therefore, a regular app-user would not recognize the difference in operating speed between Objective-C vs Swift. Speed also depends on a programmer’s level and capabilities, since a slow app can be written in Swift as well.
Learn more here https://mlsdev.com/blog/51-7-advantages-of-using-swift-over-objective-c
Its performance approaches the one of C++ which is considered the fastest algorithm calculation arithmetics. And Apple strives to improve the speed of Swift. Learn more here https://mlsdev.com/blog/51-7-advantages-of-using-swift-over-objective-c
iPhone app, a new born language, it may good but the IDE, xcode is bad compare with Visual Studio. It just like a baby. playground can only use without connect to other library...you can not do a simply refactor of renaming a variable. You can go to definition and find reference, but you can not go to implementation....I should write them on xcode not here basically it is not the fault of swift, but it tightly to it, unless you want to use a notepad to write it.
Most of our newer apps are written completely in swift, with our older ones and some special cases using a mix of Swift and Objective-C, but with Swift 2, the language is pretty much a must-use. "guard" is <3.
Even though React Native takes care of most of the heavy lifting, there are still some cases where we need xcode. These cases include app icon integration, mobile deployments, loading screens, ect...
Xcode is our primary development platform for iOS applications, with a very fully featured set of dev tools for the platform. For everything else, there's Sublime Text 3.
Flutter is coded with Swift v.2.3 and can be run with Xcode v.8.2.1. To launch in Xcode 9.3, the code needs to be migrated to Swift 4.1
Experience with Xcode in the context of iOS development. This includes Storyboards, Debugging tools and the Simulator.
QA and Testing have been so much easier with the help of its simulators on Apple Devices like; iPhones and iPads.
PrometheanTV provides SDKs for IOS devices and utilizes the XCode IDE for development and testing purposes.
Most of the app code was gradually rewritten in Swift for better performance and code maintenance.